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T D 357T LGBTQ OPPRESSION: DIALOG COHEN, SARAH
Peers for Pride (PfP) is a peer facilitation program of the Gender and Sexuality Center. Students will take two courses during the academic year in partnership with the Gender for Women’s Gender Studies. During the program, students build applied theatre, critical analysis, and facilitation skills as they build the workshop “What Do Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?” Students create message scenes and activating scenes in the workshop to share skills and build space for conversation and accountability across LGBTQIA+ communities and with supporters of LGBTQIA+ communities. Through their facilitation and reflection after workshop facilitation, students continue to build a knowledge of performance-based social justice facilitation in higher education and of intersectional LGBTQIA+ realities.
This is the second semester course for students who will complete this course in fall 2022.
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F A 371 BUSINESS OF ENTERTAINMENT
This course will focus on the world of commercial entertainment. We will explore all aspects involved in producing live stage and on screen commercial productions. Inspiration (the search for creative content; self-generated or existing), to Organization (Executive, Administrative, Financial, Creative, Legal), Capitalization (Institutional, Independent, Theatrical, Key elements of “The Pitch”), Negotiation of Agreements & Contracts (Owner of Creative Content, Book/Script Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Choreographer, Designers, Actors, Agents, Musicians, Unions, Theatre Owner, Merchandise, Investors, Insurance), and Execution.
No Instructor Consent Required.
F A 371 Offensive Art
What should be done with Confederate statues? Should books in school libraries be censored? Should we avoid and denounce art by creators who behave reprehensibly like Harvey Weinstein or Kanye West? Who should own the “Elgin Marbles” or the Benin Bronzes? Does the First Amendment protect artists from all censorship? Should street artists Banksy and Shepard Fairey be charged with vandalism? Should public dollars be spent on controversial or ugly art the public doesn’t like? Should artists and performers be accountable to a professional code of ethics like doctors and lawyers?
Art, theatre, literature, music and dance, and the artists who create them, are often offensive, inflaming deep opposition and controversy. This course will examine cases of offensive and controversial art to examine the nature and cause of offense and what special role art and artists might play in instigating, mediating, and resolving social and political conflicts.
No Instructor Consent Required.
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